[ some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45"hamilton actions..........]

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Albert,
 
What you're hearing, in all likelihood, is Corfam, the material used to  
cover the hammer butts.  Baldwins of a certain vintage are notorious for  the 
knocking sounds created by the action.
 
They can all be replaced, of course, but it takes many hours according to  
those who have done it.  I'm sure others will chime in here.
 
Dave Stahl
 
In a message dated 11/10/2005 5:54:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
phil@philbondi.com writes:

Situation:   Occasionally I find an extraordinarily noisy  Baldwin/studio
action.........sounds as though every shank-to-hammer glue  bond is
broken,  every hammer flange is loose,   etc.........
To briefly describe it using a recent occurrence instead of  a
longwinded generic summary :  a recent customer so far out of town  that
the time zone  included mention of the last century;  it is  the last
piano on that time-warp tour, and running far into after-dark  hours
"right smack" in the greatroom of the jolly and noisy family,  I
encounter the bizarre noisemaker ("of course they have never noticed  it,
God bless 'em indeed though, great locally-successful people trying  to
feed me supper, cookies and sodas")  The basic "harp" of the  approx.- 35
year old Hamilton was very good, but the action parts were odd  in that
the shanks were spinet-diameter;  all hammer flanges were  loose but I
tightened them;  not one single shank-to-hammer glue joint  was broken
although most glue joints were obviously on the short side  of
quality-control;  there was a functioning DamppChaser dehumidifier  with
No Humidistat (they are adamant to have that corrected,  they  understood
the explanation perfectly.........the first such explanation  they had
ever received) etc. but......
the bottom  line,   more than 50 % of noise remained after repairing
one jack  stirrup brokengluejoint , tightening all hammer flanges,   and
...........however having to tune and leave in some hurry without  a
total research of the rest of the action..........my fault and  time
fault.........
any  suggestions?   happens rarely enough that I have failed to
do  follow-up research during several occurrences over so many
years.........I  need a tightly-focussed suggestion if possible,  since
it is easier to  find every problem in an institutional piano serviced
often, but easy for  me to forget to research the outlying time-pressure
pianos seen only once  or twice in a lifetime............

Albert Thomas,  Associate  Member PTG,   Bach. Mus. and Med., Master of
Music Piano  Performance
Auburn University
Albert Thomas Piano Service,  Auburn,  Alabama;   Compton, Arkansas






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